Friday, October 19, 2012

Web Hosting and Ecommerce


Web hosting service is an internet hosting service that includes World Wide Web to be connected to the people. It basically provides a space on the server, especially on the data center that usually owned by the users. Hosting is typically used for large organizations and even smaller organizations. A webpage could be transferred through the help of File Transfer Protocol. Hosting is free for personal website management, but could be very expensive for larger corporate and companies.

Ecommerce is the process of conducting transactions online or electronically through online or through the internet while buying a product or service.

Hosting Types

Various types of web hosting services are:-

Free web hosting, re-seller web hosting, shared web hosting, virtual dedicated server, dedicated hosting service, managed hosting service, cloud hosting, grid hosting, collocation web hosting. Free web hosting service includes limited services from various companies. Shared hosting services where one website is placed on to share with other sites on the same server. Re-seller hosting services are larger in size that will let a client become a web host of them. The virtual dedicated server is a server where various server resources are divided into other virtual servers. Dedicated hosting is where one user gets his or her own server. Cloud hosting servers are the most efficient and dedicated servers in the market currently.